80 Heller St. Georgen im Attergau

St. Georgen im Attergau is a small market town on the western shore of the Attersee in Upper Austria, and this 80 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian currency system left small communities with an acute shortage of small-denomination coins, forcing local authorities — down to the level of individual market towns — to issue their own emergency scrip backed by nothing more than municipal credibility.

The 80 Heller denomination is slightly unusual; most Notgeld series clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller values, suggesting this was issued to fill a specific gap in local change-making rather than as part of a collector-oriented series.